Songs From the Second Floor
Roy Andersson’s SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (2000, 100 min) is a meandering series of bleak vignettes, humorously engaging with the everyday misfortunes that come with being a person at […]
Read MoreThat Oceanic Feeling: Point Break
Director Kathryn Bigelow, a painter by training, works within and outside the lines in POINT BREAK (1991, 122 min) a cult classic about an FBI agent in pursuit of a […]
Read MoreSerial Mom
A classic John Waters comedy, SERIAL MOM (1994, 95 min) follows a perfect suburban mom (Kathleen Turner), who finds happiness and delight in following her murderous desires. Those who don’t […]
Read MoreReal Genius: The Last Happy Ending
In late summer of 1985, REAL GENIUS, WEIRD SCIENCE and MY SCIENCE PROJECT all were released within a week of each other. With similar titles, and overlapping subject matter, it […]
Read MoreProcess: An Evening With Kristen Kingsbury
Join us as Portland filmmaker Kristen Kingsbury screens recent work including an episode of her documentary series, PROCESS. Kristen will discuss her work and elaborate on her creative journey from […]
Read MoreJacques Tati’s Playtime
Jacques Tati’s PLAYTIME (1967, 115 min) observes humans in newly modernist Paris from a distance, relishing in complex visual and auditory comedy of the mundane. Considered Tati’s masterpiece and one […]
Read MoreCrash Course | Leaving the Cave: The Allegory of The Truman Show
What if everything you ever thought you knew was a lie? Peter Weir’s 1998 film THE TRUMAN SHOW (103 min) presents this philosophical dilemma in the form of a satire […]
Read MoreNo Other Land
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, NO OTHER LAND (2024, 95 min) shows with heartbreaking clarity both the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers & settlers, […]
Read MoreMinority Report
As the nineties drew to a close, Steven Spielberg stood atop a successful Hollywood film industry about to enter a period of transformation. New digital technologies were beginning to transform […]
Read MoreGenealogy of Comedy: Modern TV Comedy + Narrative Structure
This one-night class is for comedy nerds excited to pop the hood and take a look at what makes the comedic engine of your favorite shows really tick! Through a […]
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